In 2001, a film starring Kevin Spacey trending by the name, K-Pax notified fans of the star actor potential on posing as a mental patient who believes he’s from a planet called K-Pax. Kevin Spacey plays a character by the name “Prot”, who also demonstrates a rare intellect that even astonished some scientists. Believing that he was temporarily put on Earth to share his knowledge and choose whom he may take with him back to K-Pax, he warns the public of his leave date, and that he can only bring with him, one pedestrian. His Psychiatrist also begins to question and doubt his own beliefs as to what the problem could be until he insinuates the probable cause of a traumatizing event. Eventually he does discover what caused this sudden and permanent change in personality is. The film is about discover what this event is, and discovering if Prot’s prediction of him leaving Earth within a few weeks with a special person is real.Kevin Spacey illustrates how a single event can literally take away the sanity, and dehumanize a person. This is questionably, one of his most underrated movies that Mr. Spacey stars in.
Jeff Bridge who’s the Psychiatrist in the film, shows an abundance amount of entertainment and somewhat belief in the fact that Prot could be the “Hero of K-Pax.” Jeff Bridge played the role no better, nor worse than it should’ve been played. A typical workaholic who believes he’s had the veterinary skills, and has seen and heard everything under the sun until he’s introduced to this alien claiming to among the galaxy. Kevin Spacey shows astonishing work, and knowledge of the planet. Planning for the role doesn’t seem like it took long at all. Assuming that this is second nature, I could’ve thought he was an Alien myself with the different. The sunglasses were a great characterized element. You almost never seen him without glasses.
This “deep focus shot” shows the seriousness, and focus on Prot’s face as he demonstrates to the scientist, his knowledge about the planet K-pax. The deep focus shot does switch after a few seconds, and the focus begins to haunt the scientist and their obvious emotions that disturbingly appear on their faces, in disbelief of what Prot would consider “common knowledge.”
No doubt a movie that would challenge you to think, and base your own opinions, and explanations. There’s not a situation I came across, and didn’t have my own explanation for, compared to what the Psychiatrist had believe. It challenges you to go against the normal belief of extraterrestrial living, and how people amongst us could definitely live the way Prot exemplified. As humans, we always have an explanation for something, how unreal it is to believe that a being could actually be from out of this world.
No doubt a movie that would challenge you to think, and base your own opinions, and explanations. There’s not a situation I came across, and didn’t have my own explanation for, compared to what the Psychiatrist had believe. It challenges you to go against the normal belief of extraterrestrial living, and how people amongst us could definitely live the way Prot exemplified. As humans, we always have an explanation for something, how unreal it is to believe that a being could actually be from out of this world.
As thinkers, the ending challenges you to put your own conclusion and thought as to what may have happened with Prot in the ending, as to what may have happened to him in the end, the character he seeks to bring with him back to K-Pax, the Mentally Unstable community anticipated on whom he bring with him back to K-Pax, and if he indeed did retreat back “home.”
As thinkers, the ending challenges you to put your own conclusion and thought as to what may have happened with Prot in the ending, as to what may have happened to him in the end, the character he seeks to bring with him back to K-Pax, the Mentally Unstable community anticipated on whom he bring with him back to K-Pax, and if he indeed did retreat back “home.”